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Fowler, Shelli B. – Policy Futures in Education, 2023
In the preferable educational future imagined here, the year 2030 has seen massive conceptual and structural change throughout systems of education. In the higher educational landscape envisioned only 10 years in the future, institutions of higher education have moved beyond the goals of valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion and beyond…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Futures (of Society), Imagination, Higher Education
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Maggio, Joseph B. – Journal of Reading, 1979
This parody of Coleridge's poem notes some of the problems involved in accepting federal funds for education. The governmental emphasis on innovational programs is given special treatment. (MKM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
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Wolf, W. C., Jr. – Clearing House, 1979
This satire reports an imaginary research study which found three motivations for educational innovation: money, happiness, and garlic. The article facetiously traces the careers of three innovators: the director of an institute, a government official, and a popular writer. (SJL)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Educational Innovation, Motivation, Satire
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Gerlach, Jeanne Marcum; Greenlee, Ted; Johnson, Tracey J. – English Journal, 2001
Presents a script for a play that focuses on the death of a teacher co-worker of the actors (teachers) in the play. Discusses how the "traditional" grammar teaching methods of the deceased teacher were not always respected by his fellow educators, yet he did have a place in the school and education of the students. (SG)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Grammar, Instructional Innovation, Secondary Education
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Domholdt, Elizabeth; Preusz, Gerald – Innovative Higher Education, 1987
William Perry's description of college students' stages of cognitive development is condensed into four classification categories, which are explained and told in an animal allegory. This presentation clarifies the theory for teacher use. (MSE)
Descriptors: Allegory, Classification, Cognitive Development, College Students